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Two metro trains collide in Mexico City tunnel, killing one individual and injuring dozens, say authorities in megacity of 20 million.
(Reuters)
At least one individual has been killed and 57 others injured in a practice collision in Mexico’s capital.
The individual killed on Saturday morning’s accident was a younger girl, Mexico City’s safety head Omar Garcia advised native media Grupo Milenio.
Garcia shared an up to date listing of the injured later, and town’s mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, mentioned on
Twitter that she was on the web site.
Four others who have been trapped on one wagon on Line 3 have been
rescued and are in good well being, Garcia mentioned earlier.
Local media reported the trains collided in a tunnel between the Potrero and La Raza stations on the north-south line three.
Dozens of police and troopers swarmed into the close by subway stations, whereas ambulances and rescue groups arrived to deal with the injured.
Maintenance shortcomings
Inaugurated in 1969, the Mexico City Metro covers 226 kilometres with 195 stations on 12 traces.
Quite a lot of accidents have taken place on the metro in
latest years.
The most severe was the May 2021 collapse of a
rail overpass on Line 12 that killed 26 folks and injured extra
than 60.
Maintenance shortcomings have been recognized as one in every of that accident’s causes.
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